Jr r J Lr r L t. t i 1 CHARGED IN POISON PROBE K 1 t L. L SF Mass Death Plot Feared as Soda Kills Trio Laden Arsenic-Laden Packages Purchased From Store by Families Thirteen Persons Persons Persons Per Per- sons Stricken Ill Probe Pushed By United Press SAN FRANCISCO Nov 20 Municipal 20 Municipal Judge Alden Ames today issued warrants for the arrest of two men charged with selling laden arsenic baking soda held responsible for at least three deaths among the families who purchased the packages packages pack ages of dea death tho Those named in the warrants are Morris Rosenthal of the Rosenthal Department store and Nick Manno Marano of the 1 Manno Ianno Sal Sal- vage company They were accused of ot violating pure food laws in selling the contaminated contaminated contaminated con con- soda which was found to contain both arsenic and nd fluoride They also were were accused of ot selling the soda in bulk trade marked without the consent of the nationally national national- ly known soda manufacturer Face Trial Fine Fino Ames said punishment on the charges is a fine of not less than 25 and not more than or six months in the county Jail or both He set bail ball at bond or 20 cash A homicide squad detail led by byI I G George orge E Engler er and Allen McGinn meanwhile was investigating a n possibility possibility pos pos- possibility of a mass murder plot Dr J J. C C. Geiger city health officer officer and chemists believed it would have been impossible for the arsenic arsenic arsenic ar ar- and fluoride to have been mixed with the soda accidentally Geiger called attention to the manner manner manner man man- ner In which the arsenic permeated the bicarbonate found in the Rosenthal Rosenthal Rosenthal Ro Ro- store Grudge Possibility Engler's inquiry was directed partly in the direction of determining ing whether some one might have havo had a grudge against the Rosenthal firm or Manno from whom the department de- de department department de de- store bought the powder Geiger Gelder said it would have been impossible for the eye cye alone to have detected the poison It was not the common lead arsenic found in in insecticides insecticides in- in but another type white whIto in color and similar in texture to that of the bicarbonate with which it was mixed Two Tivo grains of this arsenic arc are sufficient to kill That amount would be bc found in half a teaspoonful teaspoon- teaspoon ful of ot the soda from two barrels seized in the store and traced to the Manno firm which had obtained its ita supply from a ship Inquests Slated Coroner T T. B. B Leland has arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ranged for inquests either Thursday or Friday into the deaths of Mrs Mary Katherine Katharine Ogle Ogles 61 Alfred Allred Terry 81 and his his- daughter Mrs Bessie Bessle 53 All AU had bought soda at a sp special sale at Rosenthal's Rosenthal's Rosen- Rosen thal's mals where the household article article- was offered at about 4 cents below its regular market price it was was' said At least 13 other persons were stricken ill but recovered Rosenthal Rosen Rosen- thai thal was among them Geiger said Geiger believed hundreds of packages packages packages pack pack- ages still were were in in San Francisco homes Widespread warnings were wera broadcast to avoid further disaster from the packages s of death